out of one's hands

English

Prepositional phrase

out of one's hands

  1. Out of one's control.
    I wish you weren't going to lose your job, but it's out of my hands: I can't tell them to keep you on.
    • 2025 November 26, Sir Michael Holden, “Good and bad in the Bill”, in RAIL, number 1049, page 15:
      Anyone who was fondly thinking that the creation of Great British Railways would get railways out of the hands of politicians, and back into the hands of professionals, is going to be sorely disappointed.
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